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U.S. relations with Latin America have been dramatic during the Trump administration. Guillaume Long is the former minister of foreign affairs for Ecuador. He joined The Show to discuss a few issues involving Latin America.

Immigration is one of the key policy areas for the Trump administration, with proposals ranging from building a wall along the country’s southern border to family separations to changes in who can get a green card.

The Trump administration is spending $1.2 billion from the Department of Defense budget to build more than 60 miles of new barriers along the Arizona-Mexico border. Most of the new barriers will be east of Yuma in the Barry M. Goldwater Range used for military training.

APS CEO Don Brandt announced his retirement late last month, but before he steps away, he’ll be asked to answer for the electric utility’s procedures and practices and the company’s spending for or against elected utility regulators.

This June marked the 10-year anniversary of a fire in a Sonoran daycare that killed 49 children and injured more than 100 others. Now, Mexico’s president is promising to take action on behalf of the victims and their families.

A recent Auditor General report suggested how the agency could improve and noted it isn’t inspecting schools every five years as required. Executive Director Paul Bakalis said the board has focused its staff on helping districts get money for projects through the Building Renewal Grant.

Nine Chinese undergrads from ASU were detained at Los Angeles International Airport late last week. The news comes as tensions between the US and China continue to grow. The students, some of who were set to graduate this fall, were sent back to China after U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials denied them reentry.

Three states have moved to all mail-in ballots for Election Day. There isn’t anything to indicate that Arizona will follow in their footsteps. But a healthy majority of voters in last week’s Phoenix city election cast their ballots via mail.

An effort to unionize the Arizona Republic’s newsroom is underway and growing more public. In the latest development, an email from executive editor Greg Burton accusing pro-union staffers of tracking their coworkers was shared with news outlets — including KJZZ.

Last week, Phoenix voters easily defeated a ballot measure that would have stopped the expansion of light rail in the city. That means the city can push forward on three light rail extensions stretching into south Phoenix, to the state Capitol and to Metrocenter Mall.